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So... Is this like a movie scenario where she gets to go free?
I mean death penalty opinions aside, does it make sense to give medical care to someone you're trying to kill? What a weird world we live in.
I mean if they can technically say "Hey she was probably dead for a second." Then she served her sentence, right?
Considering she spent 30 years on death row prior, which isn't the punishment she was sentenced to, I think a case could be made. Morally speaking of course, legally it's Tennessee.
it's the doctors' duty to keep her alive. They took the Hippocratic oath. It's the state that is trying to kill her, not the doctors
But it was the state that brought her to the doctors.
We, as a society, are trying to kill her, not torture her. The constitution explicitly bans torture
It's a fine line between execution and torture
what differentiates torture or not is guidelines on a paper.
most ppl today would agree, that waterboarding is torture. in guantanamo it was not considered torture as long as a few guidelines where followed. guidelines, like at what angel the prisoner is laying on the floor...
Ok but as a society, we've gotten pretty good at killing people. Lots of different ways. Suddenly we're like, "Oh no. This is really hard." It's like the one thing we excel at.
Does it? Then why does the US do so much of it?
Could have just shot her in the head when it failed just baint her brown and put a gin in her hand and have coos there.
I mean, in Westerns you can't be hanged twice.
First time?
I've heard it's like, if you survive 3 executions, it's a sign that God wants you to live.
If she weighs as much as a duck
or a very small rock
I heard god was a rapist and a terrorist and an abuser
If he could, he would let them all go, but the truth is god is not omnipotent, he is impotent.
Then why call him God
Exactly, and I don't, I call him god as in a concept, god with a capital G is a religious term as in an actual person and elevated position.
Gods only exist as delusions for the weak minded.
Omnipotent is religious belief, impotent is the result of not existing, not existing makes god 100.00% impotent.
That's the Islamic god, and all the other ones. Christian god is cool as hell and super laid back.
No, you've got it wrong - after the first two, the third is free.
From what I understand, no. But her lawyer will probably argue another lethal injection attempt would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. So she may end up getting the electric chair. A grim fate regardless.
The rule of law still matters. While it might feel logical that someone just take a scalpel to an artery after the injection failed, the law says it has to be done in a specific manner. Anything else is (legal) murder. And healthcare professionals also have an oath to fulfill.
Like I said, what a weird world we live in.
This subject came up while I was having a medical test done and the tech and I discussed it. She brought up a good point. Why not just put the subject to sleep like you would in an operation. From that point, pretty much nothing is cruel and unusual since the inmate won't feel it.
What if someone truly is executed, literally dead and buried in the ground...but then I use necromancy to bring them back? They quite literally died for their crimes. I just...undid it. Are they free to go, having paid their debt to society?
There are some the cases that are a bit like that in history, like Half-hanged Maggie and Anne Greene, women who survived hanging, which probably gets the closest to that necromancy situation, in real life. Half-hanged Maggie was considered to have gone through her sentence by Scottish law, so she was let go (and had to remarry her husband, since she had legally died). Anne Greene's execution was reprieved, but by English law she was not considered to have gone through the sentence. But in the end she was pardoned, as they believed it was God's will that she lived.
That hasn't been decided by the courts yet, probably due to the lack of a suitable test case.
I really dont want to find out we're living through Torchwood Miracle Day.
We already have enough pedophiles-child killers running around without finding out one of them is a hero of the story.